18 JUKES EDWARDS 



Griswold'a Prose Writers : The first man of the 

 world during the second quarter of the eighteenth 

 century. 



JIbllister'a History of Connecticut: The most 

 gifted man of the eighteenth century, perhaps the 

 most profound thinker in the world. 



Mosea Coit Tyler : The most original and acute 

 thinker yet produced in America. 



This is the man whose intellectual life has thrilled 

 in the mental activity of more than 1,400 men and 

 women of the past century and a half, and which 

 has not lost its virtue or its power in all these 

 years. 



England and Scotland are not wont to sit at our 

 feet even in this day, and yet they sat at the feet 

 of Jonathan Edwards as in the presence of a mas- 

 ter when he was a mere home missionary, living 

 among the Indians, to whom he preached every 

 Lord's day. 



The birth of fame is always an interesting study. 

 It is easy to play the part of a rocket if one can 

 sizzle, and flash, and rise suddenly in darkness, but 

 to take one's place among luminaries and shine 

 with permanent brilliancy is so rare an experience 

 as to present a fascinating study. 



Jonathan Edwards was twenty-eight years of 

 age, had been the pastor of a church on the fron- 

 tier, as Northampton was, for four years without 

 any notable experience, when he was invited to 

 preach the annual sermon before the association 

 of ministers at Boston. Never since that day have 



